loads, gifts and cruises

Friday was a morning to exercise. It was quite pleasant in the 60s, warming into the high 70s later. I walked around the park and Evelyn exercised. Evelyn returned and made the jambalaya for Sunday. I took the car to the central location where we load the vehicles for tomorrow’s trip to distribute items in the colonials in Mexico. The cars will be loaded this evening. We came home for a sandwich, dressed in our hospital garb, and rode our bicycles to the hospital. We served at our regular stations until 5. Evelyn had taken a plate of Christmas cookies for the volunteers and they were eaten. We rode home, and I went to see if I could help in loading the vehicles. I did but there were so many people there that we were generally competing for boxes to carry to the cars. Our car was the final one loaded, and I just left it there for the night since Evelyn did not want to go out for fish. We ate some soup here instead. After supper we watched a movie, “Babe: Pig in the City”. It was really clever but more for children. I also continued making end of the year donations on line now that our credit card had been paid. I called the credit union from the hospital to try to get them to contact Bank of America so I can pay on line. The computer runs quite slow but I did get some completed. We also lined up our friend Joe to go with us to deliver our Angel Tree gifts on Christmas Eve afternoon. He speaks some Spanish and the family we are donating to speaks no English. We look forward to a real blessing in this process and know the boy will feel blessed to receive a gift from his father who is in prison. We also received an e-mail from Tom Jones who is planning a flight and cruise to South America in early 2009. We look forward to being with them because they have been there before.